I have decided to stop blogging.
For loyal readers of this blog, you know that’s not the first of such an announcement. I have wanted to pull the plug to this blog several times but somehow I resuscitated it and continued. I have made friends here, connected with my book fans, won some cool prizes via this blog and also given out cash vouchers and book prizes to readers.
My initial intention is to completely delete this blog so that it would disappear totally from cyberspace. But as I was copying the content into Word documents (if you know of a faster way to copy an entire blog copy to your hard disk, let me know), I realise that some information contained here would be useful to netizens, for example my entries on writing and books. It would be pity to delete them all and deprive someone these nuggets of information. So I am letting this blog float around.
Why do I want to stop blogging? If you look at the recent history of my entries, you’d notice that I update sporadically these days, maybe once a week or even a fortnight. I am running out of steam for fresh content to blog about. Now that I’m holding a full time job, there is less time to play around with. Besides, I want to concentrate on writing more books.
Perhaps in future I may start other blogs for other interests. But for now, it is goodbye to Life’s Like That – the blog. I will still maintain my media gallery at www.lydiateh.blogspot.com and you can also refer to my website at www.lydiateh.com for updates.
Goodbye.
This haunting and lovely song by Teresa Teng seems appropriate in my present frame of mind. Just substitute ‘love’ with ‘blog’ and it almost hits the nail on the head.
*sad* Wish you all the best! Oh, and I can’t wait till your next book hits the store!
Goodbye… to your blog.. Yes, just let it float around. Don’t delete it totally. It’ll still be useful to others that way. All the best.
Oh, that’s sad…
But I’m glad you’ve decided not to delete the whole thing. You can still write whenever you feel like it 
I don’t know how to copy the entire blog in one go, but when I wanted to archive my blog, I chose the option to display a whole year’s posts in a page (Blogger allows that, I don’t know about WordPress) and saved the webpage (that way I have only one page per year). Then I switched the option back to what I had previously
Oh dear …. ok, I shouldn’t be selfish but it sure is sad to say “goodbye”. Yes, please do keep this blog floating because you’ll never know when one day something interesting comes along.
I wish you the very best in your writing! Take care!
Take care Lydia, I only brought along one of ur book to Australia with me “Honk! If u r Malaysia”.
Your book had accompany me every moment when I was waiting for the train at the station. Some of the Mat Salleh was staring at me when I was laughing out while reading ur book, they was curious and looking at the title.
I will miss ur blog but I wish u can continue to write for us, u sell ur book cheap and bring joyful tears to my eye. But pls don’t delete the entire blog,pls keep it, it could inspire other in the future.
And if I not mistaken, facebook announce today is ur bday, Happy Birthday by the way
Lydia, no matter what, I support your decision just. I’m glad to have known you here and don’t forget to keep me in touch ok? You got my email address!:)
Take care there!
Hey all, thanks for expressing your sadness. It feels good to be missed…
Save it in PDF format. That way, you maintain the original format. You can use CutePDF (www.cutepdf.com), it’s free.
Chet, thanks for the tip. Will try it out.
It’s through this blog that I first came to know you. My blog died long ago while yours is in a comatose. Keep in touch, OK?
(Sarah)
Hi Alice, you are one of the good ‘things’ that came out of this blog.
I just discovered u by reading “Honk! If You’re Malaysian” and u’re disappearing?
Ha, ha, joking. Like the others, I wish u the best and yes, do leave this blog as a buried net treasure. At least give me some time to look around!
I’m sure I’ll see u blogging about a future interest. Or blog about your job next, after a well-deserved rest?
To retrive your blog, try Wget:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
GNU Wget is a free network utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web
Roger, thanks for the link and for discovering me
Never say never, I may pop up again in the blogosphere sometime in future.
Oh my God. It seems like a death of a life. it’s poignant. I’m sincerely loves your writing, and i know, it is so hard to transfer humor into writing. kudos for that. i’m hoping to read your new books in the future, ok.
love,
shawal (a great fan, by the way)
Shawal, thanks for your kind words.
Lydia, FYI:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
Export Your Content to Another Blog or Platform
Go to Tools -> Export in your WordPress.com dashboard to download an XML file of your blog’s content.
You can download a partial archive by using the following filters:
Thanks. Will tinker with it when I have some time.
hey lydia. i’m thinking of republish some of your blog entries (which i found interesting) into my blog. can i? your writing have influence my interest in writing. i’m hoping it will influence the others to join the world of writing.
Hi Shawal, do let me know which blog entry you are interested to reproduce in your blog. If you attribute it accordingly, it should be ok.
ok. thanks a lot. i’ll let you know about it.
Oh nooooooooooooooooo~!
It’s been ages since I last been here because I just moved house and have no Internet access plus I am busy, so sorry for that.
And now I am back and saw this goodbye post, so sad
Anyway I’m sure your fans would respect your decision and it has been such an anjoyable read while it last.
I’ll continue support your books and hopefully one day I would be able to meet you personally!
Take care aunty Lydia.
Elaine, one of the reasons for shutting down my blog is because you are hardly here nowadays to comment.
Just kidding-la. Thanks for your support. I hope to meet you too. Frasers Hill is one of my favourites places in Malaysia. Next time I go there, I’ll let you know. Take care, young lady.
Wish you good luck with your future endeavor in cyberspace:)
Simon
too bad, the blog was great but I’m sad that you are not blogging anymore,at least it’s still floating around.
p.s.your books has inspired me in writing
Hi, good topic, like the blog to me
Oh dear …. ok, I shouldn’t be selfish but it sure is sad to say “goodbye”. Yes, please do keep this blog floating because you’ll never know when one day something interesting comes along.
I wish you the very best in your writing! Take care
Wishing you the best in your future endeavors…
priorities within responsibilities